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Texas's redistricting plan passed the Republican-majority Senate and is headed to the governor's desk. This could mean big wins for the GOP in Congress—and a challenge for Democrats.

Court documents say the Salvadoran man at the center of a high-profile U.S. immigration case now faces deportation to a country in Africa. We discuss the latest in the Abrego Garcia case.

The Congressional Budget Office says President Donald Trump’s tariffs will reduce the federal deficit by around $4 trillion over the next decade. We’ll have an economist break it down.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, in his final keynote address at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, said current conditions “may warrant” interest rate cuts. “With policy in restrictive territory, the baseline outlook and the shifting balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance,” Powell said in prepared remarks.

The Texas Senate is expected to vote on a bill on Friday to redraw Texas’s congressional maps to increase Republicans’ hold on the state’s U.S. House delegation by as many as five seats. The bill is expected to pass through the Republican-dominated upper chamber, at which point it will go to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature.

President Donald Trump on Friday visited “The People's House,” an immersive museum about the White House. Trump answered questions about public safety in the nation’s capital, Fed Governor Lisa Cook, and his renovation plans for the Kennedy Center.

The United States and the European Union issued a joint statement on Thursday that frames the ongoing deal between the trade partners and solidifies some trade commitments. The agreement includes a 15 percent U.S. tariff on most imports from the bloc, including autos, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and lumber. The joint statement also says that the United States and the EU intend to accept and provide mutual recognition of each other's standards for cars.

President Donald Trump has scored a significant win with a New York appeals court throwing out the $500 million penalty he received in his business fraud case. The decision on Aug. 21 was issued after a hearing last year in which the appeals court seemed skeptical of the case against Trump.

Western allies are continuing to work on a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Ukraine. Multiple meetings are being held in efforts to arrange a trilateral leaders summit, while also working on security guarantees for Ukraine. NATO defense chiefs are set to hold a virtual meeting on Wednesday as Western countries push for an end to the war. Russia's foreign minister said on Wednesday that Russia has to be involved in the process. According to the Kremlin, excluding Moscow from security talks won't yield results.

The Texas Legislature is expected to pass a new congressional map on Wednesday that would shift five seats to Republicans. On Tuesday, Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier spent a second night in the Texas Capitol building. She had refused to accept a mandatory police escort meant to ensure Democratic lawmakers wouldn’t attempt to leave the state again.

President Donald Trump has said that U.S. troops will not be sent to defend Ukraine's borders. "You have my assurance," he said during an interview with "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday.

As Hurricane Erin neared North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Tuesday, threatening to whip up wild waves and extreme winds, evacuations were ordered on barrier islands along the Carolina coast. Authorities warned the storm could churn up dangerous currents and swamp roads with waves of up to 15 feet in height.

A Russian drone attack hit a residential area in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv as the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was preparing for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington later on Monday. The Russian air force said it launched 140 drones against Ukraine overnight, the largest total recorded in a single night since Aug. 4.

Trump said on Monday that he would sign an executive order ahead of next year's midterm elections as part of what he called "a movement" targeting mail-in balloting and voting machines across the country.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will travel to Washington on Monday to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump. European Union President Ursula von der Leyen, NATO Secretary Mark Rutte, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will also join the meeting at the White House.

On Sunday, Zelenskyy was welcomed by European leaders in Brussels.

Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, says Russian President Vladimir Putin made concessions for Ukrainian “land swaps” during Friday’s summit in Alaska.

President Donald Trump departed Washington aboard Air Force One on Friday on his way to a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska for discussions about a possible cease-fire deal for the war in Ukraine. Trump was accompanied by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, as well as other top aides, the White House said.

Before the high-stakes meeting between Trump and Putin, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy joined NTD to discuss the significance of the event, as well as the strategic importance of the Arctic in the face of an ever-closer Russia–China alliance.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to make a deal on ending the war in Ukraine, after the Russian president floated the prospect of a U.S.–Russia nuclear arms agreement on the eve of their summit in Alaska. "I think he's going to make a deal," Trump said in a Fox News radio interview, adding that if the meeting were to go well, he would call Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders afterward.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has said the state is preparing to open a second immigration detention facility—dubbed the “Deportation Depot”—at a state prison in northern Florida. DeSantis announced on Thursday that the new facility is to be housed at the Baker Correctional Institution, a state prison about 43 miles west of Jacksonville. It is expected to hold 1,300 immigration detention beds, though that capacity could be expanded to 2,000, state officials said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was “bluffing” when he said sanctions were not hurting the Kremlin. Zelenskyy was speaking after sitting in on a series of virtual meetings hosted by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz ahead of the summit on Friday between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

President Trump visited the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday to unveil its 2025 honorees for artistic excellence and tout a major renovation as lawmakers push to rename the venue for the president.